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All about fun, funny pics, fun pics, funny images and other info!Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:38:20 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.37 Most Frightening Museums of the Worldhttp://www.funpicweb.com/7-most-frightening-museums-of-the-world.html
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The Museum of Death, California, USA
The World Famous Museum of Death was founded in June, 1995, originally located in San Diego’s 1st mortuary in a building once owned by Wyatt Earp. Evolving from the controversial art gallery the Rita Dean, founders JD Healy and Cathee Shultz realized the void in the death education in this country and decided to make death their life’s work. The Museum of Death houses the world’s largest collection of serial murderer artwork, photos of the Charles Manson crime scenes, the guillotined severed head of the Blue Beard of Paris, original crime scene and morgue photos from the grisly Black Dahlia murder, a body bag and coffin collection, replicas of full size execution devices, mortician and autopsy instruments and pet death taxidermy.

Meguro Parasitological Museum, Japan
This museum collection, opened in 1953, is the only museum collection in the world dedicated to the nasty parasite. With over 45,000 details in its accumulation, it shows about 300 of them at a time. Look at glass jars full of the most evil-looking bugs, worms, and creepy crawlers, and recognise that if you are in the erroneous position at the erroneous time they could invade your body, too. View a actual 8.8 meter-long tapeworm that was extracted from a residing human. See safeguarded animals whose bodies were ravaged by parasitic raid, for instance a turtle whose tongue was returned by a parasite.

Museum of the Mummies- Guanajuato, Mexico
The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. The mummies were discovered in a cemetery in Guanajuato, making the city one of the biggest tourist attractions in Mexico.
The bodies appear to have been disinterred between 1865 and 1958. During that time a local tax was imposed requiring relatives to pay a fee to keep their relatives interred. If the relatives were unable or unwilling to pay the tax, the bodies were disinterred. Ninety percent of the remains were disinterred because their relatives did not pay the tax. Of these, only two percent had been naturally mummified. The mummified bodies were stored in a building and in the 1900s began attracting tourists. Cemetery workers began charging people a few pesos to enter the building where bones and mummies were stored. This place was turned into a museum called El Museo De Las Momias.

The Medieval Torture Museum, Italy
A torture museum is a museum that exhibits instruments of torture and provides tutorials on the history of torture and its use in human society. There are several museums dedicated to the history of torture located in Europe such as the Torture Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Mediaeval Torture Museum in Rüdesheim am Rhein, the Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, and the Medieval Criminal and Torture Museum in San Gimignano, Italy.

The Catacombs of the Capuchins- Palermo, Italy
The Catacombs of the Capuchins are vitally a assemblage of more than 8,000 mummified bodies of persons who past away between the 17th and 19th centuries. The bodies are on brandish, coating the partitions in below ground maze-like sleeping rooms, silently sat on in a creepy tribute to the inhabits that they one time dwelled so numerous centuries ago. Dusty and grey, they are clothed in the finest apparel owned in their lifetimes. Many left directions in their wills to have those apparel altered at certain times.

The Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum, USA
Vent Haven Museum is the world’s only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia. Its collection contains more than 700 objects and character dolls from twenty countries related to ventriloquism, including dolls that belonged to Edgar Bergen. The museum is in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, just five miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio. Vent Haven Museum was founded by William Shakespeare Berger, a Cincinnati businessman and amateur ventriloquist. Berger amassed the collection from the 1930s until his death in 1973.

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Red Lagoon, Bolivia
Red Lagoon (Laguna Colorada) is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and close to the border with Chile. The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts with the reddish color of its waters, which is caused by red sediments and pigmentation of some algae.

Crater Lake, USA
Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the western United States, located in south-central Oregon. It is the main feature of Crater Lake National Park and is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a nearly 2,148-foot (655 m)-deep caldera that was formed around 7,700 (± 150) years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. Human interaction is traceable back to the indigenous Native Americans witnessing the eruption of Mount Mazama. There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall at a rate such that the total amount of water is replaced every 250 years.

Lake Karachay, Russia
Lake Karachay is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in western Russia. Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility. Karachay is the most polluted spot on Earth. The sediment of the lake bed is estimated to be composed almost entirely of high level radioactive waste deposits to a depth of roughly 11 feet.

Caspian Sea, Russia
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world’s largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km2 (not including Garabogazköl Aylagy) and a volume of 78,200 km3. It is in an endorheic basin and is bounded to the northwest by Russia, to the west by Azerbaijan, to the south by Iran, to the southeast by Turkmenistan, and to the northeast by Kazakhstan.

Lake Titicaca, Bolivia and Peru
Lake Titicaca is a lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. By volume of water, it is the largest lake in South America. Lake Maracaibo has a larger surface area, but it is considered to be a large brackish bay due to its direct connection with the sea.
It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world, with a surface elevation of 3,812 metres. Although this refers to navigation by large boats, it is generally considered to mean commercial craft. For many years the largest vessel afloat on the lake was the 2,200-ton, 79-metre.
Boiling Lake, Dominica
Dominica’s Boiling Lake is situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park – Dominica’s World Heritage site. It is a flooded fumarole 6.5 miles east of Roseau, Dominica. It is filled with bubbling greyish-blue water that is usually enveloped in a cloud of vapour. The lake is approximately 200 ft across. They measured the water temperature and found it to range from 180 to 197 degrees Fahrenheit (82 to 91.5 Celsius) along the edges, but could not measure the temperature at the centre where the lake is actively boiling. They recorded the depth to be greater than 195 ft.

]]>http://www.funpicweb.com/unique-lakes-around-the-world.html/feed0World’s Coolest Countrieshttp://www.funpicweb.com/worlds-coolest-countries.html
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:29:51 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59817Continue reading World’s Coolest Countries]]>New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses – that of the North Island and the South Island and numerous smaller islands. The Economist conceived an catalogue displaying the nations where women are most probable to be treated identically at work founded on the labor-force participation rate, the salary gap, the percentage of women in older occupations, and the cost of progeny care in evaluation to salaries, amidst other factors. New Zealand arrives out on top.

Most Educated Country: Canada
Canada is a country in North America consisting of 10 provinces and 3 territories. At 9.98 million square kilometers in total, Canada is the world’s second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the world’s longest land border shared by the same two countries. Based on a study undertook by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 24/7 Wall St. amassed a register of the 10 nations with the largest percentage of college-educated mature individual residents. Topping the journal is Canada — the only territory in the world where more than half of its inhabitants can arrogantly hang college degrees on their walls.

Unfriendliest Country: Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in central South America. A novel journal set free in March 2013 by the World Economic Forum has organised which places roll out the meet mat to travelers, and which give the cold shoulder.Bolivia took the uncertain honor, scoring a 4.1 out of seven on a scale of “very unwelcome” (0) to “very welcome” (7). Venezuela and the Russian Federation were next.

Cleanest Country: Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country marking the juncture between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The country has a population of 321,857 and a total area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi), which makes it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland is the cleanest homeland in the world. According to investigators at Yale and Columbia Universities, the Nordic isle ranks first out of 163 nations on their Environmental Performance Index. Researchers graded nations founded on 25 signs, encompassing water and air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impact of the natural environment on the wellbeing of the population.

World’s Most Pessimistic Country: France
France officially the French Republic, is a sovereign country in Western Europe that includes overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only three countries besides Morocco and Spain to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. The yearly review, conveyed out by the polling organisation BVA-Gallup for the daily newspaper Le Parisien, talked to the inhabitants of 51 nations over all five countries to assess grades of optimism and pessimism. The unhappiest countries were in Europe, with France at the top, receiving a negative score of 79.

World’s Richest Country: Qatar
Qatar officially the State of Qatar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south. A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island state of Bahrain. Forbes Magazine freshly brought ahead and issued a table of the richest countries in the world. In the position of the World’s Top 10 Richest Countries as of October 2012, Qatar came in first, topping Luxembourg which was positioned second.

World’s Happiest Country: Colombia
Colombia officially the Republic of Colombia, is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. It is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama. According to a lately issued sample by the WIN/ Gallup International Association, the South American homeland put first on the “Global Barometer of Hope and Happiness,” which reviewed persons in 54 countries. The survey found that Colombians are nearly two times as joyous as the international average.

]]>Flightless Birds Around the Worldhttp://www.funpicweb.com/flightless-birds-around-the-world.html
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Kiwi
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae. At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand, and the association is so strong.

Emperor Penguins
The Emperor Penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 122 cm (48 in) in height and weighing anywhere from 22 to 45 kg. The dorsal side and head are black and sharply delineated from the white belly, pale-yellow breast and bright-yellow ear patches. They are flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat.

Inaccessible Island Rail
The Inaccessible Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi) is a small bird of the rail family, Rallidae. It is the only species in its genus. It is found only on Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago, and is notable for being the smallest extant flightless bird in the world. Unlike many other islands, Inaccessible Island has remained free from introduced predators, allowing this species to flourish. This rail is found throughout Inaccessible Island, but prefers grassland and open fern-bush. Its diet includes earthworms, moths, berries, and seeds.

Flightless Cormorant
The Flightless Cormorant, also known as the Galapagos Cormorant, is a cormorant native to the Galapagos Islands, and an example of the highly unusual fauna there. It is unique in that it is the only cormorant that has lost the ability to fly. Like all cormorants, this bird has webbed feet and powerful legs that propel it through ocean waters as it seeks its prey of fish, eels, small octopuses, and other small creatures. They feed near the sea floor and no more than 100m offshore.

Greater Rhea
The Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) is a flightless bird found in eastern South America. It inhabits a variety of open areas, such as grasslands, savanna or grassy wetlands. Weighing 50–55 pounds (23–25 kg), the Greater Rhea is the largest bird in South America. In the wild, the Greater Rhea has a life expectancy of 10.5 years. The males are generally bigger than the females. Large males can weigh up to 40 kg (88 lb), stand nearly 1.83 m (6.0 ft) tall and measure over 150 cm (59 in) long, although this is rare.

Emu
The emu is the largest flightless bird native to Australia. It is the second-largest bird in the world by height, after ostrich. The soft-feathered, brown, flightless birds reach up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) in height. They have long thin necks and legs. Emus can travel great distances at a fast, economical trot and, if necessary, can sprint at 50 km/h (31 mph). Their long legs allow them to take strides of up to 275 centimetres (9.02 ft). Emus use their strongly clawed feet as a defence mechanism. Their legs are among the strongest of any animal, allowing them to rip metal wire fences.

]]>http://www.funpicweb.com/flightless-birds-around-the-world.html/feed0Incredible Animals and Plantshttp://www.funpicweb.com/incredible-animals-and-plants.html
http://www.funpicweb.com/incredible-animals-and-plants.html#respondWed, 20 Nov 2013 08:08:28 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59409Continue reading Incredible Animals and Plants]]>Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below the skin, calcified structures that are usually reduced to isolated microscopic ossicles joined by connective tissue. In some species these can sometimes be enlarged to flattened plates, forming an armour. In pelagic species such as Pelagothuria natatrix (Order Elasipodida, family Pelagothuriidae), the skeleton and a calcareous ring are absent.

Alcon Blue Butterflies

Phengaris alcon, more commonly known as Alcon Blue or Alcon Large Blue, is a butterfly of theLycaenidae family and is found in Europe and Northern Asia. Alcon larvae leave the food plant when they have grown sufficiently (4th instar) and wait on the ground below to be discovered by ants. The larvae emit surface chemicals (allomones) that closely match those of ant larvae, causing the ants to carry the Alcon larvae into their nests and place them in their brood chambers, where they are fed by worker ants and where they devour ant larvae. When the Alcon larva is fully developed it pupates. Once the adult hatches it must run the gauntlet of escaping. The ants recognise the butterfly to be an intruder, but when they go to attack it with their jaws they can’t grab anything substantial as the newly emerged adult butterfly is thickly clothed in loosely attached scales.

Duck-Billed Platypus

The platypus is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the few venomous mammals, the male platypus having a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans. The body and the broad, flat tail of the platypus are covered with dense, brown fur that traps a layer of insulating air to keep the animal warm. The fur is waterproof, and the texture is akin to that of a mole. The platypus uses its tail for storage of fat reserves. They have a sense of electroreception: they locate their prey in part by detecting electric fields generated by muscular contractions. The platypus’ electroreception is the most sensitive of any monotreme.

Fishzilla
The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to Africa and Asia. These elongated, predatory fish are distinguished by a long dorsal fin, large mouth and shiny teeth. They breathe air with gills as well as with suprabranchial organs developing when they grow older, which is a primitive form of a labyrinth organ. The two extant genera are Channa in Asia and Parachanna in Africa, consisting of about 35 species.

Acacia trees
Acacia also known as a thorntree, whistling thorn or wattle, is a genus of shrubs. They are one of the most common types of plants in Africa and in Australia, but can be found around Mediterranean Europe and even in the US and Asia. They are impressive trees that can be very useful in producing medicine, gum or beautiful wood ornaments. Acacia seeds can be difficult to germinate. Research has found that immersing the seeds in various temperatures (usually around 80 °C) and manual seed coat chipping can improve yields to approximately 80 percent.

]]>http://www.funpicweb.com/incredible-animals-and-plants.html/feed0Strange Frogs of Worldhttp://www.funpicweb.com/strange-frogs-of-world.html
http://www.funpicweb.com/strange-frogs-of-world.html#respondTue, 19 Nov 2013 09:20:26 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59369Continue reading Strange Frogs of World]]>The Surinam toad or star-fingered toad is a species of frog in the Pipidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.Its feet are broadly webbed with the front toes having small, star-like appendages. Specimens of close to 20 cm (8 in) in length have been recorded, although 10-13 cm (4-5 in) is a typical size. The Surinam toad has minute eyes, no teeth and no tongue.

The Malayan Horned Frog

The Long-nosed Horned Frog also known as the Malayan Horned Frog or Malayan Leaf Frog is a species of frog restricted to the rainforest areas of southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia to Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. This species is a large frog ranging from 100-120 mm in length. They are light to dark brown on the dorsal surface with varying patterns and camouflage very well with the forest floor. The throat is black-dark brown and diffuses into cream-yellow halfway along the ventral surface. The upper eyelids and snout are drawn out into long triangular projections, forming what looks like “horns”, giving them their common name.

The Purple Frog

It can be found in the Western Ghats in India. Names in English that have been used for this species are purple frog, Indian purple frog or pignose frog. The body of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis appears robust and bloated and is relatively rounded compared to other more dorsoventrally-flattened frogs. Its arms and legs splay out in the standard anuran body form. Compared to other frogs, N. sahyadrensis has a small head and an unusual, pointed snout. Adults are typically dark purplish-grey in color. Males are about a third of the length of females.

The Crucifix Toad
The Crucifix Toad is the most distinctive species of frog within the Notaden genus. Whereas most Notaden frogs are dark brown in colour, the Crucifix Toad exhibits many bright colours. Its dorsal surface is bright yellow, with a cross of many colours centered on the back. The cross is outlined with large, black dots, and filled with white, black and red dots. The ventral surface is white, and the flank’s blue. The Crucifix Toad is a small, and very round frog. Its nose is blunt, and legs and feet are small. As this species is fossorial, the tympanum is hidden. Males reach a length of 6.3 centimetres (2.5 in), and females a length of 6.8 centimetres (2.7 in). The species feet have little “spades” to help them burrow deeply.

Atelopus Frog
Atelopus, commonly known as Harlequin toads, is a large genus of true toads from Central and South America, ranging as far north as Costa Rica and as far south as Bolivia. Atelopus are small, generally brightly colored and diurnal. Most species are associated with mid- to high-elevation streams. This genus has been greatly affected by amphibian declines, and many species are now considered endangered, while others already are extinct. The cause of these declines primarily appears to be the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

]]>http://www.funpicweb.com/strange-frogs-of-world.html/feed0People That Have Been Eaten By Animalshttp://www.funpicweb.com/people-that-have-been-eaten-by-animals.html
http://www.funpicweb.com/people-that-have-been-eaten-by-animals.html#respondMon, 18 Nov 2013 18:11:18 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59287Continue reading People That Have Been Eaten By Animals]]>Tigers are normally not man eaters, but for some reason in India they are attacking humans every chance they get. In the past year there have been six cases of tiger attacks. They are positive that there have been many more cases that have gone unreported. They believe that the tigers are coming down from the wooded area into the villages to eat. They are unsure of why they are doing this, but the attacks are increasing and efforts to find out why are also increasing.

Wolves
Wolves are generally shy around humans, but when they are hungry they will find another source of food. These animals will hunt and eat anything that they can catch. In Afghanistan, there were reports of wolves coming into villages to eat humans after a winter that was to severe. There were a total of four people killed by wolves in the same area. These people were on their way to other villages or to buy food and supplies from the market area when they were attacked and eaten by these wolves.

Bears
Bears are not known for killing people, unless they are provoked or attacked themselves. These animals are normally docile and will run from humans when they are spotted. But, in the case in Russia the bears that attacked two men where starving. These bears are running out of food, the men where both security guards at a mine and the bears attacked them while they were at work. These bears main food source, the salmon, are being poached in alarming numbers. Now that their food is running out, they are eager to find a new source of food. The humans were the closest thing.

Lions
Lions will hunt anything that moves. They are the ultimate predator. They are the king of the jungle and will prey on anything. There are all kinds of videos out there that show how a lion will camouflage itself to stalk its prey and the last minute pounce on them. After they have made their kill, they will drag it away to share with the rest of the lion pack. In Africa, they believe that a lion started hunting humans because he had a toothache. For twenty months, this lion stalked and killed villagers in three different villages. This was the largest number of deaths attributed to one lion. After the lion was killed, the game hunters tried to figure out just what made the lion have a lust for human blood.

Crocodiles
Crocodiles are known for being man hunters. They will eat human flesh faster than any other animal out there. There have been numerous cases of crocodiles snatching the first human they come upon, dragging them into the water to drown them and then eating them. These are vicious attacks, even when the person is just attempting to get a drink these animals will attack. In 2007, there was a boy in China that broke into a zoo and decided to taunt the crocodiles. He and his buddies jumped the fence. They beat the animals with sticks and shot them with slingshots. One of the irate animals grabbed the boy’s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by a swarm of the crocodiles. His friends sounded the alarm and one of the crocodiles was killed. Once they opened the animal up, they found some of the remains of the boy inside.

]]>http://www.funpicweb.com/people-that-have-been-eaten-by-animals.html/feed07 Amazing Snakes Around the Worldhttp://www.funpicweb.com/7-amazing-snakes-around-the-world.html
http://www.funpicweb.com/7-amazing-snakes-around-the-world.html#respondMon, 11 Nov 2013 06:45:12 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59806Continue reading 7 Amazing Snakes Around the World]]>The Burmese Python is one of the five largest snakes in the world, native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of Southern- and Southeast Asia. They are often found near water and are sometimes semi-aquatic, but can also be found in trees. Wild individuals average 3.7 metres (12 ft) long, but may reach up to 5.74 metres (19 ft). The record maximum length for Burmese Pythons is held by a female named “Baby”, that lived at Serpent Safari, Gurnee, Illinois, for 27 years. Shortly after death, her actual length was determined to be 5.74 metres (18 ft 10 in).

Blue Malaysian Coral Snake
Calliophis bivirgatus, commonly called the blue Malaysian coral snake is a venomous elapid snake. It was first described, as a new species in scientific literature, by Friedrich Boie in 1827. It is found in western Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. It is a medium-sized coral snake with a slender body. Adults are usually 140 centimetres (5 ft) long, though larger specimens have been captured. The color is indigo or deep blue with light blue or white stripes along each side of the body. The head, venter, and tail are usually bright red. It has a blunt snout with a pair of small eyes on the sides of the head.

Langaha Nasuta
Langaha snake is a medium-sized highly cryptic arboreal species. It is endemic to Madagascar and found in deciduous dry forests and rain forests. There is considerable sexual dimorphism within the species; the males are dorsally brown and ventrally yellow with a long tapering snout while the females are mottled grey with a leaf shaped snout. Malagasy leaf-nosed snake is largely a sit-and-wait predator. It may show curious resting behaviour, hanging straight down from a branch. Malagasy leaf-nosed snake is generally calm and reluctant to bite unless provoked.

Emerald Tree Boa
Corallus caninus, commonly called the emerald tree boa, is a non-venomous boa species found in the rainforests of South America. Adults grow to about 6 feet (1.8 m) in length. They have highly developed front teeth that are likely proportionately larger than those of any other non-venomous snake. The color pattern typically consists of an emerald green ground color with a white irregular interrupted zigzag stripe or so-called ‘lightning bolts’ down the back and a yellow belly.

Blind Snake
Ramphotyphlops braminus is a harmless blind snake species found mostly in Africa and Asia, but has been introduced in many other parts of the world. Completely fossorial, they are often mistaken for earthworms. Adults are small and thin. Averaging between 6.35-16.5 cm (2½ to 6½ inches) in length. The head and tail-tip look much the same, with no narrowing of the neck. The rudimentary eyes appear only as a pair of small dots under the head scales. The tip of the tail ends with a tiny pointed spur. The head scales are small and resemble those on the body.

Horned Viper
Cerastes cerastes is a venomous viper species native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East. It often is easily recognised by the presence of a pair of supraocular “horns”, although hornless individuals do occur. The average total length (body + tail) is 30–60 cm (12–24 in), with a maximum total length of 85 cm (33 in). Females are larger than males. One of the most distinctive characteristics of this species is the presence of supraorbital “horns”, one over each eye.

Cobra’s Hood
Cobra is any of various species of venomous snakes usually belonging to the family Elapidae, most of which can expand their neck ribs to form a widened hood. Not all snakes commonly referred to as cobras are of the same genus, or even of the same family. The name is short for cobra de capelo or cobra-de-capelo, which is Portuguese for “snake with hood”, or “hood-snake”.

]]>http://www.funpicweb.com/7-amazing-snakes-around-the-world.html/feed07 Amazing Man Made Islandshttp://www.funpicweb.com/7-amazing-man-made-islands.html
http://www.funpicweb.com/7-amazing-man-made-islands.html#respondThu, 07 Nov 2013 14:49:13 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59790Continue reading 7 Amazing Man Made Islands]]>The World or World Islands is an artificial archipelago of various small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map, located 4.0 kilometres (2.5 mi) off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The World islands are composed mainly of sand dredged from Dubai’s shallow coastal waters, and are one of several artificial island developments in Dubai.

No Man’s Land Fort was a fort built in the Solent as part of the Palmerston Forts. It is 2.2 kilometres off the coast of the Isle of Wight and was built in the years 1867 to 1880 to protect Portsmouth. It was built at a cost of £462,500 which, adjusted for inflation, is equivalent to £43,391,356 at 2010 prices. No Man’s Land Fort is almost identical to Horse Sand Fort. It has been used as a luxury home/hospitality centre for high-paying guests – due to the privacy it offers – with an indoor swimming pool and two helipads.

Amwaj Islands, Bahrain
Amwaj Islands are a group of man-made islands located in the northeast of Bahrain, near the coast of Muharraq island. It covers roughly 30 million square feet. Amwaj Islands are a pioneering project in Bahrain, the first to offer 100% freehold land ownership to expatriates living in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It also increases the supply of waterfront property which is in low supply in this small island nation. With the completion of infrastructure such as electricity, roads, water, sewerage and telecoms, Amwaj recently became fit for residential use.

Umi Hotaru (Japan)
Artificial island Umihotaru with a rest area consisting of restaurants, shops and amusement facilities. Air is supplied to the tunnel by a distinctive tower in the middle of the tunnel, called the Kaze no Tō, which uses the bay’s almost-constant winds as a power source. The road opened on December 18, 1997 after 23 years of planning and 9 years of construction at a cost of 1.44 trillion yen (11.2 billion USD at the time of opening).

Mexcaltitan, Mexico
Mexcaltitán de Uribe, also known simply as Mexcaltitán, is a small man-made island-city off the coast in the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Legend has it that it was the Aztlan of the Aztecs, their home city and birthplace from where they set out on their pilgrimage in 1091 that led them to the founding of Tenochtitlan. This island is now being promoted as a tourist attraction.

Spiral Island, Mexico
Spiral Island is the name of a floating artificial island built in Mexico by British artist Richart “Rishi” Sowa. It was destroyed by a hurricane in 2005. Sowa began constructing it in 1998. He filled nets with empty discarded plastic bottles to support a structure of plywood and bamboo, on which he poured sand and planted numerous plants, including mangroves. The island sported a two-story house, a solar oven, a self-composting toilet, and three beaches. He used some 250,000 bottles for the 66 feet (20 m) by 54 feet (16 m) structure. The mangroves were planted to help keep the island cool, and some of them rose up to 15 feet (4.6 m) high.

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http://www.funpicweb.com/incredibly-unique-churches.html#respondWed, 06 Nov 2013 13:08:02 +0000http://www.funpicweb.com/?p=59779Continue reading Incredibly Unique Churches]]>The Sedlec Ossuary or bone church is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have in many cases been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. The ossuary is among the most visited tourist attractions of the Czech Republic, attracting over 200,000 visitors yearly. An enormous chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls draping the vault.

LEGO Church (Netherlands

See-through Church (Belgium)
The church is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel. Depending on the perspective of the viewer, the church is either perceived as a massive building or seems to dissolve – partly or entirely – in the landscape. On the other hand, looking at the landscape from within the church, the surrounding countryside is redefined by abstract lines. The design of the church is based on the architecture of the multitude of churches in the region, but through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art.

Jubilee Church (Rome, Italy
The Jubilee Church, formally known as Chiesa di Dio Padre Misericordioso, is a Roman Catholic church and community center in Tor Tre Teste in Rome. According to Richard Meier, its architect, it is “the crown jewel of the Vicariato di Roma’s (Archdiocese of Rome) Millennium project”. The Church serves eight thousand residents of the Tor Tre Teste area and was meant to socially “revive” Tor Tre Teste.

St. Basil’s Cathedral (Moscow, Russia)
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat or Pokrovsky Cathedral are official names for a Russian Orthodox church in Red Square in Moscow. The church is also called the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, anglicized as Saint Basil’s Cathedral. It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. St. Basil’s marks the geometric center of Moscow. It has been the hub of the city’s growth since the 14th century and was the city’s tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.

Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Spain)
The Basílica Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926). Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Paraportiani Church, Greece
The Church of Panagia Paraportiani is situated in the neighbourhood of Kastro, in the town of Chora, on the Greek island of Mykonos. Its name literally means “Our Lady of the Side Gate” in Greek, as its entrance was found in the side gate of the entrance to the Kastro area. The building of this church started in 1425 and was not completed until the 17th century. This impressive, whitewashed church actually consists of five other churches attached all together: the four churches are all on the ground and constitute the base of the fifth church that has been built on top of them.

Borgund Stave Church, Norway
Borgund Stave Church is a stave church located in Borgund, Lærdal, Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. This is also the best preserved of Norway’s 28 extant stave churches. Borgund was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD with later additions and restorations. Its walls are formed by vertical wooden boards, or staves, hence the name “stave church”. The four corner posts were connected to one another by ground sills, resting on a stone foundation.